Richard Wrote:-sniped->As someone working in classrooms with over 30 % future dropouts my >impression is that there are no educational approaches that are going to >work for many of our students. What we need for many of these people is >really a more realistically real-world curriculum that is clearly >vocationally oriented. In St. Louis City they are finally talking about >re-establishing vocational-technical schools (the last one closed a few >years ago).-snipped-

Hi Richard;

Yesterday I had the opportunity to view a portion of a video by Dr. WillardDaggett. He is (president?) of an organization that specifically doeseducational research. His major theme is that students need "application". He has developed an application model, which he compares to BloomsTaxonomy.